Publish your children’s book with Sixth Element
We help authors publish a whole range of books including young children's illustrated books, early reader chapter books, middle grade books and YA novels. Illustrated books for young children Whether [...]
Writing science fiction, fantasy, steampunk?
Sixth Element Publishing is the home of Harvey Duckman Presents... as well as scifi by CG Hatton, epic fantasy by AL Buxton, bizarre fiction by Graeme Wilkinson and lots more... OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS HARVEY DUCKMAN [...]
Short Story Competitions
The Crossing the Tees Book Festival Short Story competition is now open for entries.
An insight into the indie-publishing process
One of the best things about being an indie writer is that you have control over the whole process – what you write and how you write – and you keep total ownership of your [...]
Publish with Sixth Element
We know what it’s like to finish a book – awesome and intimidating all at the same time. Once you think you’re done with your book and you’ve decided you’d like to publish it [...]
Give your book a makeover…
As well as our publishing packages, we offer a host of services to authors who have decided that indie publishing is the way to go. So even if your book has already been published, [...]
Build Your Online Author Platform
Writing your book is just the beginning. Once it’s published and out there, you need to market it, both in the real world and online. How much time and energy you spend on this [...]
Join the Sixth Element Writers’ Circle
The Sixth Element Writers’ Circle meets once a month, on the last Wednesday of the month, 10am to 12pm, at Arthur Robinson House in Billingham. We talk about a whole range of topics including [...]
Interested in writing your family history?
By Susan Lewis CBE, author of Home on the Range and Diagonal Ties Interested in writing your family history? Let me encourage you to do it. It’s not as hard as it might seem. [...]